Electronic Investor

Do Try This at Home

Online brokers help active traders execute complex trading
strategies

IF YOU'RE A PROPONENT OF THE KISS principle -- keep it simple, stupid -- trading multi-leg stock and options orders online is unlikely to be part of your life. Active traders, however, use complex orders to minimize their overall risk, or to capture profits made available by price differentials between exchanges.

And savvy online traders have been taking advantage of the advances in trading...